From the instant that they are born unwanted, their lives take the wrong turn and they find themselves, innocent, in a life sentence.

8/20/2013

The land of the forever hungry

Ever since their mother’s
milk is over, the stray dogs experience the never ending hunger on the streets.
There is never enough food for all of them and their bellies are never full.
Sometimes they are so hungry, they would eat just about everything; a plastic
bag which smells of food is often their dinner.

I heard people say that
stray puppies have a good life on the street, because of their huge bellies.
But when given a deworming pill, they transform into the skeletons that they
really are. Because they are so innocent and sweet, puppies often play to
forget about their hunger; they are not professional beggars and they always
welcome you with a wagging tail, not with a begging hand. More than once I have
seen puppies so hungry, that they couldn’t find the food given to them, even if
it was right there, under their noses; in their desperation, they just didn’t
recognize a full bowl just for them to have. That is why most of former stray
dogs that are lucky to be adopted are always afraid of going hungry again and
spend their lives eating as if there is no tomorrow. For them, each day on the
street is a battle won in the survival war.

Their lifelong burden is to find enough food to survive;
day after day, the same drama: never enough, never without a fight, never just handout
to them.A nursing mother will spend all
her day looking for food for her puppies. The elements are never as demanding
as her screaming puppies. One can easily recognize them, a bag of bones, huge
udder, always on the run for food. Bitches can give birth to up to 14 live
puppies at

once, twice a year. I wonder
if a woman could endure that for long without starting the World War III.

Stray dog in Moreni. We will spay her at the future RAR free spay/neuter campaign, thanks to RAR's generous donors

City dogs are really lucky
compared to village dogs, which, again, are the luckiest in the world compared
to the ones dumped in desert fields or woods. A city dog can fest with a
meatless bone, while a village dog is lucky to have a slice of polenta or, if
he prefers a raw vegan diet, raw corn or nuts; a “wild” dog is lucky if he
finds a rat once every few days. Maybe that is why “compassionate” people who
refuse to spay/neuter their dogs, abandon the unwanted puppies in cities’
markets or central parks; in their mind, they are doing them a favor by
increasing their chances of survival. Little do they know or care, the cities
have had enough of stray dogs and replaced the pitchforks with poison or
dogcatchers. The unwanted is doomed to pay its fault over and over again, until
dogs will evolve and start buying condoms at the local pharmacy; humans are
never responsible for it, but very inventive when it comes to means of
punishment.

I can never eat something
while walking on the street; I would rather starve than eat while so many dogs
don’t know what a full stomach is. I am ashamed to ever complain about being
hungry when they have been hungry all their lives. Seeing walking skeletons
wait patiently outside restaurants or meat stores is, for me, one of the most
ridiculous things in the world; I see it all the time, but people walk on by, indifferent
to their silent hunger. I wonder how they would act if starving for days. They
would probably cry and turn their personal drama into a national interest
story. But dogs can’t do that; their drama doesn’t sell.

People have always been
aggressive to those who feed stray dogs, because they believe we are to blame
for everything. If they would have their way, the streets would be covered in
agonizing dogs that would just die of hunger. The more “compassionate” ones
just believe dogs will go into the woods and mountains and live there as their
ancestors did.

The world needs less hungry
(dog) bellies. None of us want to see so many of them on the streets, some for
more humane reasons than others. Let’s spay or neuter more and sacrifice less
innocent animals every year!

Most of the time kids stone them or kick them. It is horrible for any animal lover to even pass through Romania, I am very glad that RAR and other great people are doing their best to stop these horrors. Romanian dogs are so gentle and kind and yet so abused.

Sad, but true. There are a lot of Romanian children who don't know how to walk, but they sure know how to kick a dog. They are the future animal abusers and possible biting "victims". Violence can get anything in response, but violence.

Who am I?

I am the leader of a small NGO for dogs in Romania and I have joined RAR's noble fight, because I believe only SPAY or NEUTER can solve Romania's stray dogs' issue. I have seen for myself the benefits both for the animals and for the communities. We can prevent more unwanted animals being born into a world that has no place for them. Neuter or spay! No more strays!